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Album	You	Global	Diff
Fuzzy Logic Super Furry Animals	5	2.94	+2.06
Vulgar Display Of Power Pantera	5	2.97	+2.03
Scum Napalm Death	4	2.07	+1.93
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys	5	3.27	+1.73
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Various Artists	5	3.3	+1.7
Sunday At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio	5	3.31	+1.69
Fear Of A Black Planet Public Enemy	5	3.34	+1.66
Be Common	5	3.35	+1.65
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) The Kinks	5	3.39	+1.61

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	1	3.82	-2.82
Let's Stay Together Al Green	1	3.76	-2.76
Violator Depeche Mode	1	3.7	-2.7
Remain In Light Talking Heads	1	3.67	-2.67
Young Americans David Bowie	1	3.62	-2.62
Blackstar David Bowie	1	3.48	-2.48
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Derek & The Dominos	1	3.39	-2.39
Music for the Masses Depeche Mode	1	3.37	-2.37
Tommy The Who	1	3.33	-2.33
Achtung Baby U2	1	3.3	-2.3

Artists

Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
Public Enemy	2	5
Oasis	2	5
The White Stripes	2	5

Least Favorites

Artist	Albums	Average
David Bowie	4	1.5
U2	3	1.33
Depeche Mode	2	1
Talking Heads	3	1.67
The Who	3	1.67
Brian Eno	2	1.5

Controversial

Artist	Ratings
The Beach Boys	2, 5
The Flaming Lips	4, 1
Common	2, 5
Radiohead	2, 3, 5

5-Star Albums (28)

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Popular Reviews

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band · 1 likes

4/5

How is this a debut album?

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise · 1 likes

1/5

What is this shit? The worst thing I've heard so far, literally no redeeming features.

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves · 1 likes

1/5

When I think of the albums that aren't on this list so that this crap can be... Impossibilly dull, lyrically pointless

4-Star Albums (49)

1-Star Albums (27)

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New Forms

Roni Size

4/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

Like a wave, starts strongly, dips, comes back up, then ends back in the dip. Some tracks are too much, over played and a little onanistic.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

I feel bad even thinking this, but I really didn't enjoy most of the tracks on here. I appreciate that the Beach Boys are revered and loved, but this was too lightweight for me.

The Suburbs

Arcade Fire

3/5

Feels like an album in a world of playlists. Only slight criticism is that it may be a bit too long. How this is 15 years old is baffling.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

5/5

I was ready to hate this. Not an artist I've ever heard of before, and I'd have judged this book by its cover and not picked it up. His album is incredible.

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

2/5

I really thought I'd enjoy this... I was wrong. Too much going on, a musical version of my ADHD before medication. Try as I might, I just couldn't finish.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

3/5

Some decent tracks but didn't grab me

Moby Grape

2/5

American Idiot

Green Day

3/5

Solid, couple of bangers, great production. I'd forgotten how good green day are. (My god to I hate wake me up when September ends though).

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

3/5

It was an ok listen, I mostly got on with other things with it in the background. Didn't grab me, but I didn't dislike it.

Violator

Depeche Mode

1/5

Dull, monotone. Not for me

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

3/5

Real surprise, both that this is Jeff Buckley's dad, and that there are some absolutely brilliant songs on this album, sitting next to so proper 1960s fillers. Pleasant street is my favourite track, but also loved I never asked to be your mountain and Phantasmagoria in two. Albums like this are why I wanted to do this process.

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Couple of good songs, but mostly a bit middle of the road.

Dirt

Alice In Chains

5/5

Amazing from start to finish

Odessey And Oracle

The Zombies

2/5

Feels it's age

Amnesiac

Radiohead

2/5

Not my favorite of theirs

Safe As Milk

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

4/5

How is this a debut album?

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

It's ok as background. Very consistent sound, which makes it a bit boring for me, I'm sure lots have sampled the tracks in there.

Document

R.E.M.

5/5

Incredible, timeless, angry, beautiful. My favorite album from a band reaching their peak

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

5/5

Easy 5. Glorious and luxurious. Moody but my mood lifted in listening somehow

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

1/5

Pithy lyrics, overly produced crap couldn't make it through. Awful.

A Little Deeper

Ms. Dynamite

4/5

Sounds 20 years old, but some gems in there

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

3/5

Interesting. It's like, I can tell a top class chef has made a shrimp dish, but I still don't like shrimp

Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

4/5

Like an incredible bottle of red wine, warm and velvety. I don't always feel like red wine though, and I can't drink too much in one go.

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Dead Kennedys

5/5

As relevant now as it was 45 years or so ago. Everything that the sex pistols were and more. Incredible.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

2/5

Not for me

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Dull

Entertainment

Gang Of Four

3/5

Solid

Either Or

Elliott Smith

4/5

Didn't realise there was an elliott smith record in the list, but I'm very pleased that there is. A tortured soul who channeled his despair. Makes me sad, but sometimes that's welcome.

Cafe Bleu

The Style Council

2/5

I can't say it's rubbish, because I'm no musician, but I hate the arrangement, the singing, the lyrics, barely a redeemable feature. I absolutely love Weller as a solo artist, and adore the Jam, but this is not for me.

Joan Armatrading

3/5

Some lovely songwriting and melidies

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

So many great songs

Purple Rain

Prince

3/5

I get that he's an amazing musician, i just don't appreciate his songs. You think you're very sexy, I get it.

Inspiration Information

Shuggie Otis

2/5

Didn't enjoy this at all really. It starts well but fades into the background quickly

Black Sabbath

1/5

You can't write war pigs and a letter supporting Israel

I Against I

Bad Brains

3/5

Solid, but feels it's age

This Is Fats Domino

Fats Domino

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

4/5

Yes, ok, it's really bloody good. Happy now?

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

4/5

Not my favourite of theirs, but still a lot of great tracks

The Yes Album

Yes

3/5

Honestly don't know what to think of this album. Some of it is great, some of it is an acid trip

Feast of Wire

Calexico

4/5

Never heard anything about these guys before but stunning album. The first hour is a 5, it got a little repetitive after that

Time (The Revelator)

Gillian Welch

4/5

Really enjoyable, lots of flavour and a great voice

Broken English

Marianne Faithfull

2/5

Entirely unremarkable and no standout tracks for me.

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Metallica

3/5

The Joshua Tree

2/5

The drop off after the 1st 3 tracks is gigantic. From brilliant to barely tolerable

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

I See You

The xx

2/5

Haunted Dancehall

The Sabres Of Paradise

1/5

What is this shit? The worst thing I've heard so far, literally no redeeming features.

Remain In Light

Talking Heads

1/5

James Brown Live At The Apollo

James Brown

4/5

So few have this talent to whip a crowd into a frenzy, then pull them back. Absolute palm of the hand

Music From The Penguin Cafe

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

3/5

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon

3/5

Amazing beats, some decent tracks but the lyrics are both out of time, and mostly average at best

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

5/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Derek & The Dominos

1/5

This one hurts as it's so, so, incredibly good, but delivered by a racist, chauvinistic, cruel piece of shit.

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

2/5

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

4/5

Sweet Baby James

James Taylor

3/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

4/5

Coldplay get a lot of hate, but i really enjoyed this album

After The Gold Rush

Neil Young

3/5

Destroy Rock & Roll

Mylo

2/5

I can tell that it's well done. I just hate it.

Synchronicity

The Police

2/5

Parklife

Blur

4/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

5/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

3/5

Not available on YouTube or music other than individual tracks. Difficult to score

The Band

3/5

Achtung Baby

1/5

Music by numbers. Lyrical durge.

Selling England By The Pound

Genesis

2/5

I don't get this album at all, i just didn't enjoy any of it.

Pretenders

4/5

So many great tracks

Live At Leeds

The Who

2/5

Woodface

Crowded House

4/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

An album of that one nirvana song that you don't like

The Atomic Mr Basie

Count Basie & His Orchestra

3/5

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Phrenology

The Roots

3/5

Fifth Dimension

The Byrds

2/5

(What's The Story) Morning Glory

Oasis

5/5

I hate the Gallagher brothers but this album changed UK music

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

The Flaming Lips

4/5

White Ladder

David Gray

4/5

Tidal

Fiona Apple

2/5

Melody nice in some places, lyrics absolutely terrible

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

3/5

I Should Coco

Supergrass

3/5

Never my favourite britpop band, and I don't think this has aged well. Couple of bangers but a lot of forgettable tracks

Catch A Fire

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

2/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

Olympia 64

Jacques Brel

3/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

4/5

Scum

Napalm Death

4/5

I was dreading this...

Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Brian Eno

1/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

How do they have TWO albums on this list? Admittedly his is the better one but for me, neither has a place

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

3/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Like Water For Chocolate

Common

2/5

Red Headed Stranger

Willie Nelson

2/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

Definitely Maybe

Oasis

5/5

Liam and Noel are both their own flavour of Bellend, but as much as it pains me, this is a masterpiece. The closest they ever got to being the Beatles (imo) and an album that changed the course of British music.

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

4/5

The La's

4/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie

2/5

Rings Around The World

Super Furry Animals

3/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

4/5

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

1/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Streets

2/5

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

3/5

Blur

3/5

New Wave

The Auteurs

3/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

2/5

Shadowland

k.d. lang

2/5

The World is a Ghetto

War

3/5

Basket of Light

Pentangle

2/5

Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves

1/5

When I think of the albums that aren't on this list so that this crap can be... Impossibilly dull, lyrically pointless

Odelay

Beck

4/5

Chelsea Girl

Nico

1/5

If we're honest with ourselves and our tru opinions I think that we can all agree that this is wank.

Bummed

Happy Mondays

2/5

As coherent as a Shaun Ryder interview

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

3/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

White Light / White Heat

The Velvet Underground

4/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

4/5

Common

5/5

Fuck me this is good.

Music in Exile

Songhoy Blues

4/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

3/5

Sometimes a good, sometimes a shit

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

This makes me feel full, in the same way a hearty meal does. Satisfying, familiar, yet exciting at the same time. There isn't a low point in the whole album for me, nowhere that I switched off.

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Homework

Daft Punk

2/5

Just not for me. Couple of decent tracks but mostly too much and a bit anxiety inducing

Play

Moby

4/5

Some great tracks on here for sure,

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Not to my taste in any way shape or form

Disraeli Gears

Cream

2/5

Obligatory fuck Eric Clapton message.

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz

3/5

Exodus

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

2/5

Sea Change

Beck

3/5

Ok, decent album but can't quite see why it's on this list

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

5/5

I'm not nearly smart enough to know why, but this was blissful

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

american dream

LCD Soundsystem

2/5

Entirely unremarkable.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

1/5

Why is this on here, WHY? Bloviated, devoid of charisma, and has absolutely nothing to say.

Blue

Joni Mitchell

4/5

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

1/5

Unlistenable. This might be brilliant if you like this sort of thing, for me it was an hour and long tom and jerry soundtrack

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

Super talented but way too religious for my taste

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

3/5

Slayed?

Slade

2/5

Filed in the "this has no place in this list" bucket.

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

The Kinks

5/5

Staggeringly good album. I love the Kinks anyway but this is head and shoulders above anything they'd done to this point.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

4/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

If there's one thing that will prevent me from completing this list it's the volume of talking heads records punctuating it like badly used apostrophe(')s. That being said, this is the most (only) listenable of theirs I've heard so far. A band and record I should like, but just don't/can't; lyrically it's just too poorly written.

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

5/5

Fulfillingness' First Finale

Stevie Wonder

3/5

Ritual De Lo Habitual

Jane's Addiction

3/5

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan

5/5

A 25 year old wrote this...

Dusty In Memphis

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

1/5

I tried. I really did.

Halcyon Digest

Deerhunter

2/5

Not special. So there's no Ben Folds albums, but there is this? It's not bad, by any stretch, I just don't understand

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

4/5

Lo-fi, interesting, irregular.

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

2/5

Just not for me. Monotonous

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

A Date With The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

2/5

Music has moved on, and despite the misogynistic undertones, it's just too lightweight for me. I can hear the influence they had on the early Beatles, so they get marks for that

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

3/5

All of the elements are there, crisp production, solid vocals, precision playing, it's just hollow. Without soul or heart somehow

Illmatic

Nas

4/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

2/5

Got confused and thought this was ELO. It was not ELO.

Vauxhall And I

Morrissey

1/5

Dreary bollocks

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

4/5

Femi Kuti

4/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

2/5

As drab as my Nan's wallpaper in 1982

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

5/5

We need this anger

Sex Packets

Digital Underground

4/5

Lyrically suspect (of it's time, sadly) but otherwise really interested

Pyromania

Def Leppard

2/5

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones

2/5

It's just so dull. The 2 decent tracks are drowned out by rest

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

2/5

I've always thought I hated David Bowie. I was right.

Madman Across The Water

Elton John

3/5

Forever Changes

Love

1/5

What in the wandering minstrels is this? Sometimes this list makes me question whether I like music, or whether I just like familiar noises. But then I wonder how I get familiar with the noises I like? Either way. Shite.

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

Modern Kosmology

Jane Weaver

2/5

Ellington at Newport

Duke Ellington

5/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

5/5

Hotel California

Eagles

5/5

Foxbase Alpha

Saint Etienne

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

3/5

Killing Joke

2/5

Repetitive RepetitiveRepetitive

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

2/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

5/5

OK Computer

Radiohead

5/5

Vulgar Display Of Power

Pantera

5/5

The Soft Bulletin

The Flaming Lips

1/5

Almost impossibly dull and monotone

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

Pink Flag

Wire

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

5/5

White Denim

4/5

Marquee Moon

Television

5/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

1/5

This was the inspiration for a genre... A genre that I hate almost in it's entirety, so it's no surprise that this was lost on me, no nuance, no subtlety. Repetitive and draining; I couldn't wait for it for end.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

4/5

Apocalypse Dudes

Turbonegro

1/5

This reminds me of music that's made to be in a TV show, by the band from the local school. Like high school musical and school of rock got their scripts mixed up in the hall. Not awful if it's a room away and you can just hear the bass and the top notes, or if you're doing something else while it's on and can't quite hear it. The second you tune in... Bad. And whatever bad is in Norwegian.

Autobahn

Kraftwerk

1/5

Like someone threw a tumble dryer down a fucking long flight of stairs. More hardwerk than kraftwerk. Scheiße

Moving Pictures

Rush

3/5

Tommy

The Who

1/5

Daltry is a Brexit 🔔 🔚 and Townsend is a nonce. This is an insult to both rock and opera.

American Beauty

Grateful Dead

3/5

Microshift

Hookworms

2/5

Ok so we don't get death cab for cutie, or the bluetones, but we do get this dictionary definition of mid 2010s bang average? It's ok, bordering on good in parts, but seriously.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

5/5

The Last Broadcast

Doves

4/5

Young Americans

David Bowie

1/5

No.

Caetano Veloso

3/5